On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Dorian Raymer<deldo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote: [...] >> Thanks for thorough explanations. >> >> I have a question --- why don't you run the frontend on the app engine >> as well? That way, you don't need any servers and just leave >> everything to Google to handle. > > In short, you can't run Twisted on App Engine, so the codenode frontend is > not usable without significant extra adaption work. Also, vendor lock-in > with google is something we would like to avoid. > > That is not to say a notebook project specifically for App Engine is a bad > idea. As you pointed out, Ondrej, a pure App Engine Notebook would be a > completely free source of computation power, but for us, it is not something > we have time to focus on right now.
I see. I didn't suggest to be vendor locked though, as it is possible to write for example a django app, that works both in and out of the google app engine, for more info see for example: http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/pure_django.html Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
